“Happy” singer Pharrell Williams appears halfway into the slick rhythmic track of “See That Boy Again,” but it’s quite obvious that she’s a brute force all on her own. As if she was dropped into a vat of old school R&B, the soundtrack for Think Like a Man Too feels upbeat, lively and outshines the moods heard on her last two full-length albums.Īlthough the album breaks out with a trite copy-and-paste revision of Shalamar’s ‘80s jam, “A Night to Remember,” a cluster of original tracks composed and produced mostly by Tricky Stewart and The-Dream surrounds Blige. The latter seems to be the proper way of restoring some connection with her weary Stans and long lost detractors. Hoping to get her back on track, Blige recently joined with rising UK crooner Sam Smith on a cover of his explosive gospel-tinged hit, “Stay With Me.” And, now she’s going the soundtrack route, performing all of the material on Steve Harvey-inspired film Think Like a Man Too. And her safe, AC-fitted, David Foster-produced holiday album may have literally supplied her fan base a “blue Christmas.” Wrong” from My Life IIbarely reaching number 87 pop.
MARY J BLIGE LATEST ALBUM 2014 UPGRADE
Despite the upgrade of her vocal chops, Blige has lost some of her pop appeal with “Just Fine” missing the Top ’s “Mr.
Her last three albums – all gold-certified – are considered modest successes when compared with the heavyweight platinum-certified releases from the ‘90’s and 2000’s.
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